What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two lines intersect in Jean-Pierre Gorin’s lovely and distinctly American film, which takes as its subject the desire to re-create the past (the locomotive aficionados’ elaborate worlds in miniature, Farber’s teeming canvases) and expands to something richly philosophical and surprisingly funny. Routine Pleasures is a masterful meditation on America’s landscapes, real and imagined.
Screening in conjunction with L’Alliance New York’s series “Why? Because…with Jean-Pierre Gorin”, programmed by Yuka Murakami and Jake Perlin. Jean Pierre Gorin will appear at L’Alliance New York on June 2nd to present Toni and Lumière dété and June 5th to present Vladimir and Rosa and Godard in America. Gorin will also appear at e-flux Screening Room on June 6th to present Poto and Cabengo.
Q&A with Jean-Pierre Gorin following screening.
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